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These books illustrate the evolution of American garden-making over time - shaped by history, social attitudes, the environment, and new ideas. This collection complements the exhibition Cultivating America's Gardens produced by the Libraries and Smithsonian Gardens.

The Great War profoundly changed not just the geopolitical landscape of Europe, but also an entire generation as well as affecting the culture, economics, politics, and technology of countries outside the immediate combatants.

From chemistry to couture, feathers to physics, color is a topic that links science, history, art and culture. This collection includes books featured in the exhibition "Color in a new Light" as well as rare and interesting titles from across the Libraries collections that reveal the many ways we use, understand, and see color.

In 1955 Bern Dibner, the noted science book collector and founder of the Burndy Library, published Heralds of Science as Represented by Two Hundred Epochal Books and Pamphlets Selected from the Burndy Library. To construct the list, Dibner selected two hundred items he owned that “proclaimed new truths or hypotheses in science.”